Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-01

mel OF your saddle and your liver in Sn old
newspaper, requires the greatest courage.
Men who can do this must be cool and
| self possessed. They are generally men
who ere prompt to sct in case Of danger,
and often discover and alluds in shrill
voice to g FIRE in q crowded theatre years
before any body e'sa knows anything about it,.
Too much alress cannot be PLACED upon
the COSTUME ~oea while fox hunting-and,
in fact, tbat is, after all, lhs lie and soul OF
the chase Fer ladies, nothing looks batter
than close fitting jacket. sewo0 together
with thread Of the same shade end skirt
Neat fitting cavalry boots end pus hat
complete the costume. Then, with n hue
in one band and !. cr} in The ether, she is
prepared to m5unt LesG the horse up 20
stone wall or ffeight car and spring lightly
into the saddle Sith 3 glad cry. A freight
car is the best thing from which to mount a
horse, but ii il Toe uJYialdy, aud frequently
delays the chase For his reason, zoo, much
luggage should not be carried oD 2 fox-hunt.
Some gentlemen carry Il change of canes
neatly concealed il. shawl strap, but even
this may h6 dispensed with.
For gentlemen dark fuur buttoDed cut
away coat, with neat, locse tiuiDs white
pantea, Will generallg scare fox into cen
Vulsiong, 80 that ne n0r Lf aaSl: killed
with club A sflort-wal5;c, ..,Jg l.ej may
be wo.n, also, 10 order 20 dialiagui,il the
hunter froTa Tho wbpper in. who wears q
baseball cap The only fox bn~.ng L have
ever done wGa o. board All mpe;uoua,
tough hittod, fore aaG aft horse that had
emotional insanity. | WAS dressed in
swallow tail coat, waislcoat Of Scotch plaid
Turkish ;owelipg and pair oi Gloss fitting
breeches of etiquette tucked into my boot
tops. As was away from home at the time
aud could rot reach ICY own steed L was
obliged TO mount spirited siced with high,
intellectual nips, one white eye and big
red noatrii that you could set Shanghai
hen in. This horse, as sonn rs tie pack
broke into full crT, climbed over a fence
that had wrought iron briers Oh it, lit in
cornfield, stabbed his hind leg through
sere aad yellow pumpkin, which he wore
the rect Of tho day, with seven yards of
pumpkin vine streaming cut behind, and
away we dashed 'crose country. remained
mounted, not because | enjoyed it, for did
hated to get ofi'in pieces. II can't get off
horses back as 8 whole I would rather
adhere to the horse. | vii! adhere thai /
cid go.
We did not see the fox, but We saw al
most everything else. l remember, among
other things, Of riding through o hothouse
and how l enjoyed it. a morning scamper
through conservatory when the syringas
and jorquils and jackroses lie cuddled up
together in thei. little beds, is a thing TO re.
member ami loci. back TO and pay for. To
stand knee deep 10 glass and gladiolas, TO
smell the mashed ard ;nusced up mignon-
etts ard the last fragrant sigh of the
scrunched heliotrope beneath The hoof Of
you: horse while fa- nway the deep mount
ed bGyiua o the hoaTsc hounds, h oily hueeing
thereelline lrni! o. the anse-seed bag, calls on
the gorgsoualY eaperisoned bills to give
back their gerry music or fork it over to
Other answering hills, is joy to the hunts
mans neagt.
On, Oil I rode, with .DY uuconfred locks
streaming hehind me in the suiuInn wind.
On and still On sped, the big, bright pump
kin slipping up and down the gam0rci oti
my spirited horse at every jump. On and
ever on We went, shedding terror and
pumpkin seeds.along cur glittering track
till my proud steed ran his leg in gopher
hole and fel; over one of these machines
that tnoy put on . high headed steer to
keep him from jumping fences. As the
horse fell, the Decklace OF This hickory pole
flew up anu adjusted itseli around my
EnECIl. IL tli llSldIb SlcCu Ndo Ou LILO
feet again, and gayly he went forward while
the prong of the barbarous appliance ever
and anon plowed into brand new culvertiI
or rooted up q clover-fed. Every time it
ran into an orchard or cemetery it would 4
lar nv neck and knock me silly. But l.
could see with Joy that it reduced the speed
Of ny horse. at last, as the sun went
down, reluctantly, it tFeemed to me, for he
knew that he would never see such riding
again my i'll spent horse fell with hollow
moan, curled up, gave spasmodic quiver
with his little nerveless sawed-oH tail and
died.
Tho other huntsmcu succeeded in freeing
the anise seed bog az sundown, in time to
catch the o'clock train bone.
Fox hunting is one of the most thrilling
pastmes of which know, and for young
men whose parents have amassed large
sums of money in tho intellectual pursuit
of hides and talow, the meet, the chase, the
scamper, the full cry, the cover, the
stelated fracture, tho yelp of the pack, the
zip, the yell OF triumph, the confusion, the
whoop, the holla, the ballos, the hurrah,
the abrasion. the snort of the hunter, the
conclusion, the swarG. the open, the earth
stopper, the s:rapsulated hernia, the glad
cry Of the hound as he brings home the
quivering seat of the PEASANTS pantaoons,
the yelp of JOY as he lays at his masters
feet the strawberry mark of the rustic-all
are axhilarating to the sons of our Ameri-
can nobility.
Fox. x.hantipg combines danger and the
wild tumultuous joy of the skating rink,
the toboggan slide, the mush.and-milk So
ciabe and tho straw ride.
With g good horse, an air cushion, re-
liable earth stopper and ar auise.seed bag
q man must indeed be thoroughly blase who
cannot enjoy a scramper across country,
over the Pennsylvania void. New Jersey
mere, Connecticut moor the Indiana glade,
the Missouri brake, tho Michigan mead, The
An american tarl, the feru, ths gulch, the
buffalo wallow, the cranberry marsh, the
glen, the draw, the cam On, the ravine. the
forks. the bottom or the settlement